Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-26
WEATHER And CROPS.
SpeciaI Weather-Crop Bulletin Of the
Signal ORice---Ths General
Outlook Good for Cotton.
Conditfon of Wheat, Corn and Oats in
the Grain Belt OF the North-Corn
Hurt by the Dr0uth,
psrota Alone Reports the Condition
above the Average Considerable
Shortage In Other States.
CROP SUMMARY.


crop summary will appear in this weeks
issued Of the Farmers Review: Our re-
ports do not indicate any material change
in the conditions OF the corn crop in the
different states as a result Of the recent
rains. Corn on high and dry lands was
too far gone to be recuperated by rains,
but low lying and late planted fields have
been somewhat helped. These, however,
are not of sufficient acreage to affect to
any appreciate degree the general aver
age of condition. Dakota clone reports
the condition of the crop above the aver
age.
The average yield of winter wheat in
the different states, as shown by the
spring returns from our crop reports, is
SIS follows: Twenty-Five Illinois counties,
l54 bushels; fourteen Wisconsin coun-
ties, 25 bushels; eleven Ohio coun-
ties, Il 3ll bushels; thirteen Mis-
souri, counties, 30 AIS bushels;
nine michigan counties, l6 l-l3
bushels, eight Kentucky counties 10
bushels, fifteen Kansas counties IL 2-5
bushels, and eleven Indiana counties
IA l bushels.
The average yield offspring wheat in the
different states is as follows: Fourteen
counties in Iowa I2 bushels. fourteen
counties in Dakota II bushels, eight
counties in Minnesota 94 bushels, snd
thirteen counties il Nebraska IL S-l3
bushels.
The average yield of oats in the differ
ent states IS shown by threshing returns
from our report is ss follows: Twenty
six Illinois counties SO bushels. The re-
ant roip r,c-r in,
vigoreted the pastures, and fair supply
of fell feed is now anticipated.
Potatoes generally are turning out a
poor crop on account OF the drouth, but
late varieties hsve been helped by the
rains.
The apple crop viii be generally light.
IN the west cattle are beginning to
pick up in good condition snd are report
ed in good health as g rule.
The average condition Of the corn crop
in the states reported is as follows
Twenty-six counties in Illinois report
average condition CT crop OF
5G.4 per cent, eleven counties
in Wisconsin IS 8 per cent, ten counties
in Ohio 69 ) per cent, eleven counties in
Missouri Go per cent, ten counties in
Michigan IS per cent, seven counties in
Kentucky IS per cent, thirteen counties
in Kansas 40 per cent, nine counties in
Indiana 40 per cent, nineteen counties in
Iowa 50 per cent. thirteen counties in
Dakota l25 per cent, ten counties in Min
nessota 80 8 per cent, and thirteen Coun-
ties in Nebraska 20 per cent; twenty-slX
Illinois counties 30 bushels, eleven Wis
consin counties % = IL bushels, eleven
Chic counties % % bushels, eleven Mis-
souri, counties 81 40 bushels, eleven
~ Ill,
lucky counties "a 3-5 bushels, fourteen
Kansas counties %! bushels, ten Indiana
counties 81 4-5 bushels, twenty lows
counties So! bushels, eleven Dakota
counties SO GIL bushels, nine Minnesota
counties So bushels, and twelve Nebraska
counties 80 bushels.
WEATHER AND CROP BULLETIN.
c.IIFF.,.HINGToN, Aug 2I.-The following
is the Weather and crop bulletin OF the
signal office foIIthe week ended August
&c:
TEMPERATURE.
During the week ending August 90 If
he's been slightly warmer than usual
throughout the southern sta es and the
Ohio valley, and cooler than usual
throughout the lake regions and the Up
per Mississippi and Missouri valleys, the
average daily temperature in the last
named district ranging from2 to- below
the normal. In New England, the Mid
die Atlantic states and the Pacific coast
the temperature d fIered but slightly from
normal. The daily average temperature
for the season from January / TO August
20 has ranged from l too above the nor
msl in the central valleys, and il has been
slightly cooler thsn usual ST stations on
the Atlantic and Pacific coast, and from
Lake Superior to Montsns.
The rainfall during the week has been
In excess generally throughout the corn
and tobacco region and the northeast
part of the cotton region, and in northern
New England, while there has been the
usual amount of rain In the Lower
Mississippi valley. On the middle
and South Atlantic coasts, in Arkansas
and southern parts of Missouri and Kan
sas, and from Lake Superior west to Ds-
kota, well distributed rains have occur
red throughout the drouth region, and :
an. reports this morning show that
rain continues in this section. The large
deficiency of rainfall for the season,
ranging from five to fifteen inches, in the
Mississippi valley, has been slightly re-
duced in the northern states during the
past week, the only sections reportinSs an
excess of rainfall for the season being
Northern New England, the central paEs
of the Atlantic states, Southern Dakota
and the North Pacific coast.
GENERAL REMARKS.
The weather for the week has been
favorable throughout the corn belt. Re-
cent rains have greatly Empowered the
condition of that crop, but owing to the
lateness of rains in the corn producing
states the yield will probably be below
the average. In the cotton reglonlsfrom
Alabama west to Texas, the weather for
the week has improved the crop condi
tons, and the cotton harvest is progress
ing, but more rain would benefit the crop.
In the central part of Arkansas and in
North and South Carolina sn excess OF
rain for the week is reported unfavorable
Tor the cotton crop.